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Author's last name, First and Second Initial.  (Year).  Title italic. Publication

location*: Publishing company.

example:

Townsend, R. M.  (1993). The medieval village economy . Princeton, NJ: 
          Princeton University Press.

*Note: For US cities, give first place of publication listed, including city and 2-letter postal abbreviations for states (unless state is already included in publisher's name). For non-US cities, give city and country unabbreviated; also include province for Canadian cities.

Editor's last name, First and Second Initial. (Ed.).  (Year).  Title italic.

Publication location*: Publishing company.

example:

Mcrae, M. W. (Ed.).  (1993).  The literature of science: Perspectives on

popular science writing . Athens: University of Georgia Press.

*Note: For US cities, give first place of publication listed, including city and 2-letter state postal abbreviations (unless state is already included in publisher's name). For non-US cities, give city and country unabbreviated; also include province for Canadian cities.

Author's last name, First and Second Initial.  (Year).  Article title.  Journal 

title, volume number (issue number*) , page numbers.

example:

Yeh, M.  (1996).  The "cult of poetry" in contemporary China.  Journal of 
          Asian Studies, 55 (2), 51-80.

*Note: Issue numbers are only given if each issue begins with page 1; if issues use continuous pagination through the entire volume, give only the volume number.

Author's last name, First and Second Initial., Author’s last name, First and 
            Second Initial., & Author’s last name, First and Second Initial. (Year).  
            Article title. Journal title, volume number (issue number*), page
            numbers.

example:

White, S., Winzelberg, A., & Norlin, J. (1992). Laughter and stress . Humor, 5,

343-355.

*Note: Issue numbers are only given if each issue begins with page 1; if issues use continuous pagination through the entire volume, give only the volume number.

Author's last name, First and Second Initial.  (Year, Month Date).  Article title. 

Newspaper title, volume and/or issue number (if applicable), pp. page numbers.

example:

Taylor, P. (1993, December 27). Keyboard grief: Coping with computer-
            caused injuries. Globe and Mail, pp. A1, A4.

Include the original publication information:

Author's last name, First and Second Initial.  (Year). Article title. Journal title,
            volume (issue number, if not continuously paginated), page numbers.

example:

Borsari, B., & Carey, K. B. (2000). Effects of a brief motivational intervention

with college student drinkers. Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology, 68, 728-733.

If the article has a DOI (digital object identifier) assigned, include it at the end. If there is no DOI, provide the homepage of the journal, preceded by "Retrieved from". Database information is not needed unless the article is difficult to locate; for example, those archived online only in JSTOR or ERIC. Include date of retrieval only if the source is likely to change.

Author's last name, First and Second Initial. (Year). Article title. Journal title,
            volume, page numbers. Retrieved from [journal homepage URL] OR
            DOI

examples:

Davis, C., & Strachan, S. (2001). Elite female athletes with eating disorders:
            A study of psychopathological characteristics Journal of Sport & 
            Exercise Psychology, 23 (3), 245-253. Retrieved from
            http://hk.humankinetics.com/jsep/.

Vardar, E., Vardar, S.A. & Kurt, C. (2007). Anxiety of young female athletes
            with disordered eating behaviors. Eating Behaviors, 8, 143-147.
            doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2006.03.002

Clausen, J.A. (1967). The Organism and socialization. Journal of Health
            and Social Behavior, 8, 243-252. Retrieved from JSTOR.

Lector's last name, First and Second Initial.  (Year, Month).  Lecture title.
           Symposium Coordinator's First and Second Initial and Last  name
           (Coordinator's position) (if applicable), Symposium title. Symposium

           conducted at the meeting of Sponsoring Organization name, Location.

example:

Atwood, M. (1993, December).  Silencing the scream. Boundaries of the

Imagination Forum. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the  MLA Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

example:

K.W. Schaie (personal communication, April 18, 1993)

example:

The University of Chicago Romance Languages and Literatures Page is an excellent resource for students (http://rll.uchicago.edu/).

example:

T. Danford  (personal communication, March 28, 1997).

Research and Documentation online: Social Sciences (Diana Hacker) - click on Documenting Sources on the left side to see examples for in-text citations and lists of references, along with guidelines for formatting a paper and a sample paper in APA style.Includes examples for many other types of material besides those shown above.

APA Style Guide (Ohio State University) - Includes examples for both reference lists and in-text citations.

APA Citation Style (Cornell University) - includes guidelines and examples for in-text citations and reference lists.

APA Format (6th Edition, 2009) examples - University of Minnesota crib sheet.

APA Formatting and Style Guide (OWL - Online Writing Lab, Purdue University) - excellent guidelines for formatting papers (including a sample paper), in-text citations and references lists, with lots of examples.

From the APA web site :

Supplemental materials for Publication Manual, 6th ed.
APA Style Help
APA Style FAQs